Research Note: Research Models Underlying Situational Dependency
基于权变理论的定义，评述了现有研究如何处理“情境依赖”概念，提出了几种可能的解释及其对应的实证研究模型，并讨论了这些模型对数据处理技术的含义。
Some remarks on contingency theory will be made based on its definition as a theory on situation-dependent organizing. The main purpose of this article is to make a few comments on the way in which contingency studies have dealt with the concept of 'situational dependence'. The comments focus on the possible research models that might underlie the crucial concept 'situational dependency'. A set of interpretations of the concept of 'situational dependency' is presented and what type of empirical research model is implied by each of these interpretations and what their implications are for (e.g. statistical) data-processing techniques is shown. These insights are applied to existing empirical contingency research.